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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hobbes say are the three types of commonwealth?
(a) dictatorships, republics and anarchies
(b) common, formal and independent
(c) high, low and mediocre
(d) monarchies, democracies and aristocracies

2. How does Hobbes see the commonwealth?
(a) Like an army
(b) Like a church
(c) Like an artificial man
(d) Like a steam engine

3. What needs to be given to the shy people?
(a) laws to prevent their abuse
(b) an economic bailout package
(c) large amounts of financial aid
(d) encouragement to get out and attain what the others have

4. How does Hobbes define injustice of an action?
(a) a lawsuit
(b) injury
(c) premeditation
(d) accidents

5. What can the commonwealth do to check bad behavior of its citizens?
(a) Put everyone into servitude.
(b) Put power limits on subjects of the nation.
(c) Provide everything for the subjects.
(d) Increase the quality of education.

6. In his comparison of the commonwealth to the body, what does Hobbes identify as the role of the sovereign?
(a) the spine of the commonwealth, which keeps it erect
(b) the soul of the commonwealth, which is the body
(c) the head of the commonwealth, which is the mind
(d) the father of the commonwealth, which is his responsibility

7. What is the term he uses for reasoning with another person?
(a) disconcerting
(b) Signifying
(c) Arguing
(d) Stygmatizing

8. Who does Hobbes insist is of the greatest value to a commonwealth?
(a) the minister
(b) the teacher
(c) the banker
(d) the sovreign

9. What kinds of questions does Hobbes say people have little interest in?
(a) things that have absolute answers like math and science
(b) things that involve faith
(c) things that have no known answers
(d) things that have to do with the supernatural

10. Which two forms of government need not worry about succession?
(a) neither a monarchy nor an anarchy
(b) neither a communist nor an empire
(c) neither a democracy nor an aristocracy
(d) neither a republic nor a dictatorship

11. What seems to be a contradiction in Hobbes' attitude toward protest?
(a) People can legally protest but they can only do it openly.
(b) People are legally able to protest a political system, but not against the sovereign.
(c) People cannot protest but they can camgaign for change.
(d) People can protest but they cannot organize.

12. Why does Hobbes say men will give up some of their freedoms?
(a) when they go to prison
(b) to seek protection for their lives and those of their family
(c) when they are given other freedoms in return
(d) when it does not cost them anything

13. To what does Hobbes say people attribute that which is unknown?
(a) to imagination
(b) to God and religion
(c) to ghosts and spirits
(d) to scientific researsh

14. What is the first right of a sovereign power?
(a) the right to live in a palace
(b) the right to keep changing the laws to its advantage
(c) the right to own slaves
(d) the right to remain in power

15. What two factors does Hobbes believe control mental discourse?
(a) Desire and fear
(b) Education and experience
(c) Love and hate
(d) Vocabulary and definitions

Short Answer Questions

1. When is there nothing illegal or unjust in any action done by anyone?

2. How does Hobbes suggest that people reason?

3. How does Hobbes define liberty?

4. How does Hobbes classify discourse that cannot be proven?

5. Why does Hobbes say it is natural for the mother to have dominion over children?

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